Chapter+7+language,culture,and+society.pptVIP

Chapter SevenLanguage, Culture, and Society Teaching aims: to study the relation between culture, society and language Teaching focuses: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Language Variation Teaching procedures: 1. Language and culture 2. Language and society 1. Language and Culture What is culture? In a broad sense, culture means the total way of life of a people, including how to speak, how to act, how to think, how to feel, etc. In a narrow sense, culture may refer to local or specific practice, beliefs or customs, which can be mostly found in folk culture, enterprise culture or food